C. B. Gitty Crafter Supply just added a new product that many of you may find very useful: a Basic CBG Electronics Kit! This kit contains all of the bits you need to electrify your special cigar box build, without any of the hassle of having to pick out the individual parts and buy more parts than you need. This kit has it all, for a good price, and includes a 2-page illustrated how-to guide, complete with wiring diagram and step-by-step instructions!

Interested in trying something new with your cigar box instrument building? How about a mountain dulcimer? Diane from Chicago has a lot of experience building and playing mountain dulcimers, and she has written a nice article over at CBGitty.com on how to build them out of cigar boxes. This article, which includes some very nice photos of Diane’s work, is intended for people who are already fairly experienced cigar box guitar builders, and takes some basic knowledge for granted, but is a good read for anyone interested in trying new intrument building projects! Click here to be taken directly to the article.

A great new Cigar Box Guitar soldering tutorial has just been posted over at CBGitty.com. This tutorial, written by Naz Nomad, is full of photos and provides the basic how-to that you need to successfully solder the electronics in your CBG. Naz covers soldering basics like tinning your iron and wires, to soldering potentiometers and piezos, to wire winding and soldering aesthetics. If you have been scared to even try soldering, uncertain about your skills, or just want to brush up a little bit, this tutorial is for you. Click here to be taken directly to the article.

Soldering can be an intimidating thing for people who haven’t done it before, and at worst it can become a dreaded form of self torture, good only for wasting parts and burning fingers. However, it doesn’t need to be that way! This short how-to video by guitar electronics guru Ted Crocker will show you in just a couple of minutes how easy it can be to solder wire leads to your piezo disks.

Whether you are working on your first build or your fiftieth, the question of how to tune your cigar box guitar and what strings to use can be a prickly one for many builders. To address the frequent questions about CBG strings, C. B. Gitty has written an article on the topic with the new builder in mind. You can find the article by clicking this link: Choosing Strings for your Cigar Box Guitar.

C. B. Gitty has added a new article over on CBGitty.com that shows four basic wiring diagrams for piezos in cigar box guitars, along with commentary/explantions of each. These diagrams come from luthiery mad scientist Ted Crocker over at HandmadeMusicClubhouse.com, and provide a perfect starting point for builders looking to try their hand at CBG electrification. Click here to be taken directly to the article!

Using a piezo element as a pickup in your cigar box guitar is a great way to take your builds to the next level. Being able to plug into an amp really opens up a whole new level of possibilities. Here is another great article from CBGitty.com – a two part introductory article covering all the key concepts related to using piezos as pickups in your builds. Click here to be taken directly to the article.

The folks over at CBGitty.com have posted a great article discussing the various ways that you can decorate your Cigar Box Guitars, including inventive ways to make use of decorative hardware. If you are looking for ways to spruce up your build, check this article out! Here’s the link: CBG Bling: Decorating your Cigar Box Guitar

Here at CigarBoxGuitarParts.com we showcase the various parts and supplies you can use to help build and decorate your Cigar Box Guitar, as well as discussing some of the creative ways that these parts can be used. Though not a true “how-to” site (check out our sister site www.cigarboxguitar.com for a growing knowledgebase of cigar box guitar how-to), a lot of good how-to information will be presented in terms of how to make use of some of the parts we feature: things like how to install a piezo, wire up a volume pot, make good use of sound hole inserts, install tuners, etc.

We will showcase parts and supplies from various sources, with the primary source being C. B. Gitty Crafter Supply, the only cigar box guitar superstore. For over five years they have been working hard to bring CBG builders great prices on an ever-growing list of instruments, kits, parts and accessories. If you haven’t yet checked out the C. B. Gitty store, browse on over today. You won’t be disappointed!